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Her husband had a daughter by his first wife who was more beautiful than all other maidens, and so gentle and good that she won the heart of all who knew her. His second wife, however, had also a grown-up daughter, who by herself would have been ugly and disagreeable enough, but beside her good and beautiful stepsister seemed still more ugly and wicked, so that all turned from her with loathing.
"Now," said I, smiling, as I stopped at an insignificant landing-place; "this is where we go on shore to find it." "Methinks, Alb, you are playing us false," said the Mariner. "You're about to lead us into a trap of dulness." "I've a mind to stop on board and finish the chapter," said Nell. "You'll repent it if you do," I ventured. Yet I think she would have stayed if her stepsister had not urged.
But at these words the maid shook her head, and answered gently: 'I have been happy here, Madam, and I thank you for your goodness to me; but I have left behind me a stepsister and a stepmother, and I am fain to be with them once more. The old woman looked at her for a moment, and then she said: 'Well, that must be as you like; but as you have worked faithfully for me I will give you a reward.
It might have dashed Phyllis's happiness to realize this truth. "If I let Robert make arrangements for our marriage almost at once, Freule Menela couldn't get him back, could she, for he would be more bound to me than he ever was to her," said my sister. "In that line alone lies safety," I replied. "Have you told Miss Van Buren your stepsister, I mean?" "Oh yes, as soon as it happened, of course.
You must tell how many. Unfortunately that won't mend your disappointment. But what can we do?" "I suppose there isn't the slightest hope that you could er take me as a passenger?" "Oh, we couldn't possibly do that," hastily exclaimed Phil. "We're alone. Though my stepsister, Miss Van Buren, has cousins in Rotterdam, we've come from England without a chaperon, and for the present "
"You are like a little child, Elizabeth Ivanovna, and she's not your own sister, but a stepsister. She has too much her own way." "You say nothing to Alena Ivanovna," interrupted the man, "and come without asking, that's the way to do it, and your sister can manage herself." "When shall I come?" "At seven o'clock, to-morrow." "Very well, I will come," said Elizabeth, slowly and reluctantly.
I was a "stunner." From that day forward the doctor's boy considered that I belonged to him, but not until I was sent to school, with my cousin and her stepsister, did he feel called upon to claim his property. It was a mixed day-school in the village, and it was controlled by a Board which had the village butcher as its chairman.
"I'm quite sure we're not," she said. "I haven't any relatives except my father's stepsister with whom I've lived ever since the death of my parents when I was a baby." "Well, you'll really have to count me as a relative after this," laughed Millicent. "I'm sure a girl who looks as much like you as I do must be at least as much relation as a stepaunt."
"About Ned, here," said Frank, "it seems that recently a distant relative left his dead stepsister a legacy consisting of some mortgages and a house and lot. Brady learned of this. His wife being dead, the legacy goes to Ned. What Brady was figuring on was to become Ned's appointed guardian so he could manage, or, rather, mismanage the estate until Ned was twenty-one years of age."
"You are like a little child, Elizabeth Ivanovna, and she's not your own sister, but a stepsister. She has too much her own way." "You say nothing to Alena Ivanovna," interrupted the man, "and come without asking, that's the way to do it, and your sister can manage herself." "When shall I come?" "At seven o'clock, to-morrow." "Very well, I will come," said Elizabeth, slowly and reluctantly.
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